Students will need to use Workday to manage their course planning and registration for the 2024 Winter session.
For assistance with undergraduate HIST_V courses, students should contact janet.mui@ubc.ca. See Workday Student Resources - Undergraduate
As of June 13, 2024.
The History Major is in the Humanities & Creative Arts breadth area. Learn more about the new Ways of Knowing breadth requirements for students entering the BA degree program in 2024-25 and consult the Ways of Knowing Breadth Explorer.
We offer the following courses that meet the Place and Power breadth requirement:
- HIST 107 - Global Indigenous Histories
- HIST 305 - History of British Columbia
- HIST 400 - Practice of Oral History
100-level Courses
HIST_V 100-101 - What is History?
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
SPPH-Floor B1-Room B151 | Tue Thu | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Sara Ann Knuston
This course will introduce you to important concepts, processes, and debates in World History (and Global History) from ancient times to the end of the 15th century. A fundamental goal of this course is to recognize that the premodern global past was not a Eurocentric phenomenon. We will decentre Europe in our study of the past and we will pursue a greater plurality of perspectives than what historians have often traditionally examined. You will be introduced to the practice of History: our goal is not to absorb random historical “facts” but to learn how to think historically and to strive to understand how past people understood the world around them. Throughout the course, we will reflect on the enduring relevance of the premodern past to our own lives and society in the 21st century. In addition to attending lectures, you and your peers will apply your developing historical understandings from the course to solve problems posed in weekly tutorials based on your engagement of primary historical materials. We will conclude the course by reflecting on the question: what was the world that was disrupted by oceanic contacts, ca. 1500?
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
SWNG-Floor 4-Room 409 | Mon | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 102-001 - World History from 1500 to the Twentieth Century
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room A201 | Mon Wed | 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
HIST_V 102-002 - World History from 1500 to the Twentieth Century
Lecture | Open | Online Learning | 6 Credits
Online
HIST_V 103-001 - World History Since 1900
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
MATH-Floor 1-Room 100 | Mon Wed | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HIST_V 103-002 - World History Since 1900
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BRCS-Floor 1-Room 1030 | Tue Thu | 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
HIST_V 104-A_227 - Topics in World History (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
MATX-Floor 1-Room 1100 | Tue Thu | 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
HIST_V 104-E_101 - Topics in World History (E)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D222 | Mon | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Pheroze Unwalla
Film and History: Race, Gender and the Disneyfication of the Past
This course examines the intersection of history and film through an analysis of four Disney movies released in the 1990s and early 2000s– Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan, The Princess & the Frog – that (mis)represent of the histories of racialized peoples.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
1 – Recognize, ‘read,’ and critically evaluate problematic historical representations, claims, and narratives made in Disney films
2 – Analyze how Disney films shaped and were shaped by historical and contemporary understandings of race, gender, and the historical past
3 – Understand how to engage films as historical sources
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
CHBE-Floor 1-Room 103 | Mon | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Pheroze Unwalla
The Global War on Terror: A History
This course relays a history of the varied conflicts, moral and legal issues, and ideological positions that make up the nebulous, ongoing 'Global War on Terror' (GWOT). Beyond exploring the 'big' players and issues, we will undertake three more significant tasks. First, we will examine local contexts to investigate the GWOT's impact on diverse communities and individuals, seeing how they have experienced, contributed to and/or resisted the GWOT. Second, we will examine how the GWOT has helped create a politics of fear that permeates our world and inculcate suspicion of certain racialized communities. Finally, we will grapple with how diverse actors have confronted and/or resisted this politics of fear.
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits |
CHEM-Floor B1-Room C124 | Tue | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 106-201 - Global Environmental History
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
CHBE-Floor 1-Room 102 | Mon | 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
HIST_V 106-227 - Global Environmental History
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
GEOG-Floor 2-Room 200 | Thu | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
HIST_V 107-101 - Global Indigenous Histories
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D219 | Mon | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 107-201 - Global Indigenous Histories
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D222 | Mon | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
200-level Courses
HIST_V 201-201 - History Through Photographs
Lecture | Open | Multi-access Learning | 3 Credits
CHEM-Floor 2-Room D300 | Mon | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 202-B_101 - Gateway to the Middle Ages (B)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D219 | Tue | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 204-201 - History Through Video Games
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
PHRM-Floor 1-Room 1201 | Mon | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 220-A_201 - History of Europe (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room A203 | Mon | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HIST_V 235-101 - History of Canada: Moments that Matter
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
CHBE-Floor 1-Room 102 | Mon | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
HIST_V 236-201 - Introduction to Public History in Canada
Lecture | Open | Multi-access Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room A203 | Mon | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
HIST_V 237-A_101 - History of the United States (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BRCS-Floor 2-Room 2070 | Tue | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
HIST_V 240-101 - Health, Illness and Medicine I
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
LIFE-Floor 2-Room 2302 | Mon | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 250-A_201 - Latin American History (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
MATH-Floor 1-Room 104 | Mon | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 252-101 - Modern Caribbean History
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
EOS-Floor 1-Room 135 | Tue Thu | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 256-101 - History of Africa
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room B213 | Mon | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
HIST_V 260-101 - Science and Society in the Contemporary World
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room B318 | Mon Wed | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 270-A_201 - China in World History (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
LASR-Floor 1-Room 102 | Wed | 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HIST_V 271-101 - Japan and Global History, 1550 - 1900
Lecture | Open | Multi-access Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D222 | Mon | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
300-level Courses
HIST_V 300-201 - Vikings: Then and Now
Lecture | Open | Hybrid Learning | 3 Credits
LASR-Floor 1-Room 105 | Wed | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
HIST_V 302-001 - History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
LIFE-Floor 2-Room 2214 | Mon Wed | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 305-201 - History of British Columbia
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D218 | Tue | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 313-201 - Africa from Imperialism to Independence
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
ANSO-Floor 2-Room 207 | Tue | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
HIST_V 319-101 - Britain, 1945 to the Present
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
UCEN-Floor 1-Room 103 | Wed | 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Eagle Glassheim
Local Acts on a Global Stage: Research Seminar on UN Habitat ‘76 in Vancouver
In 1976 the United Nations convened the Habitat conference on human settlements in the emergent and much-admired global city of Vancouver. Delegates from over 150 countries convened to discuss the challenges and possibilities of modern cities, and to draft a set of principles for global urban development. Writing of Habitat a year later, the Canadian planner Humphrey Carver claimed that “what was done in Vancouver may well prove to be a turning point in history - although we cannot yet know if this will prove to be so.” Was it a turning point? If so, for whom and how? If not, why not? What was the legacy of Habitat for its participants, for Vancouver, and for global diplomacy and urban development? In this intensive research seminar, we’ll conceive, research, and write a history of Habitat ‘76. We’ll identify and explore relevant archival collections at UBC and the City of Vancouver. Each student will focus on a different aspect/impact of Habitat and prepare a chapter for a book of collected essays.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1133 | Wed | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Leslie Paris
American Material Culture
This introduction to material culture considers the history of things. Topics may include architecture, decorative arts, and design; visual media; clothing; food; garbage and junk; museums, collecting practices, artifacts, and mementos; consumerism; crafting and DIY cultures. We will examine the relationship between production and consumption; consider how objects change their meanings as they move through time and space; and explore how the “stuff” of life has reflected (and sometimes challenged) distinctions of gender, race, class, and age. This course will allow students to develop skills in analyzing a range of historical artifacts, and to work more closely with sources of their choosing. In selecting final paper topics, students will be free to work on a region of their choice, not limited to the United States.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1133 | Tue | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
HIST_V 323-101 - Empires, Wars, and Revs in Euro and the Americas, 1763-1838
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room D322 | Tue Thu | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 324-201 - Inventing Canada, 1840-1896
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room D322 | Tue Thu | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 325-101 - Canada 1896-1945: Boom, Bust and War
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
HEBB-Floor B1-Room B112 | Tue | 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
HIST_V 326-101 - Canada Since 1945: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age.
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D222 | Mon Wed | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 329-201 - Heroes, Rebels, Villains, Folks: People Who Shaped Canada
Lecture | Open | Multi-access Learning | 3 Credits
MATH-Floor 1-Room 104 | Mon | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Hicham Safieddine
This course explores the origins and transformation of the global financial order including central banking, monetary systems, the gold standard and sovereign debt (18th century onward) in relation to war, state-building, international political economy, and colonialism. No prior knowledge in finance or economics is needed.
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
ORCH-Floor 3-Room 3074 | Tue Thu | 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HIST_V 333-A_101 - Third-Year Honours Seminar (A)
Seminar | Closed | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1112 | Wed | 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HIST_V 333-B_201 - Third-Year Honours Seminar (B)
Seminar | Closed | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1112 | Wed | 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
David Morton
Honours Historiography
This two-term seminar is the gateway to the Honours program in history. The entering cohort learns the history of historical thought and practice, engages in contemporary debates on historical method, and experiments with different approaches to research and modes of writing. By year’s end, students will have laid the foundations for their thesis projects and fashioned a scholarly community in which to develop their ideas further.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1112 | Wed | 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HIST_V 335-202 - African-American History, 1850 to the Present
Lecture | Open | Hybrid Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D217 | Wed | 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Bonnie Effros
This course addresses the history of imperial and colonial archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and the ways in which archaeological extraction often went hand-in-hand with the European and North American imperial or colonial ventures. We will spend a lot of time discussing the artefacts that arrived in museums as a result of these ventures and what that says about our current "encyclopedic" style of museum that purports to share knowledge of the world yet is also a testament to western intervention in Indigenous societies at home and in other parts of the world. Assignments include rewriting an object label from a museum, critiquing a museum exhibition, creating a recorded oral presentation, participating in course discussions, and making a digital exhibition. All reading materials are available via library reserve.
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
SCRF-Floor 2-Room 209 | Tue | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 338-101 - American Modernity: The United States, 1890-1945
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
GEOG-Floor 2-Room 201 | Tue Thu | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 339-201 - The United States Since 1945: The Limits of Power
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
LIFE-Floor 2-Room 2214 | Tue | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
HIST_V 350-002 - The Soviet Union
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
SWNG-Floor 3-Room 309 | Mon | 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
HIST_V 351-A_101 - East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D217 | Tue Thu | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Pheroze Unwalla
This course introduces students to the history, politics, and cultures of the ‘modern’ Middle East, facilitating the adoption of an informed, critical approach to the region’s past and present. Significantly, however, the course is guided by two crucial interrelated objectives: First, we will examine the idea of the modern Middle East, grappling with complexities and nuances obscured by the dichotomization of ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ and exposing the tensions produced by ‘modernity.’ Second, students will interrogate popular historical and contemporary representations of the region and its populations. We will seek to understand the impact of these representations in spurring conflict, colonial endeavors, resistance, and false dichotomies between ‘us’ and ‘them.’ On this last note, and in a very personal way, we will all critically reflect on our own past and present visions of the Middle East and our role in perpetuating certain images and stereotypes of the region, its histories and peoples.
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D219 | Mon | 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
HIST_V 356-201 - Twentieth-Century Germany
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
IBLC-Floor 1-Room 155 | Tue | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 357-201 - History of Mexico
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
IBLC-Floor 1-Room 155 | Tue Thu | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sara Ann Knuston
The era of the Abbasid Caliphate is often described as a “Golden Age” of the Islamic World. Throughout the Abbasid Caliphate, communities contributed to global advances in mathematics, science, medicine, literature, theology, art, and philosophy. The famous collection of stories, “One Thousand and One Nights” was compiled during this time and includes the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid as a protagonist. This course explores the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the Abbasids and their contributions to the Islamic World and beyond. We will also investigate how history of the Abbasids lives on in our present day in textual and material archives and in intangible heritage practices. As historians, we will engage historiographic debates, digital methods, public-facing history, and current discussions on heritage and memory to help us analyze the Islamic past and its ongoing relevance to our world today. There are no pre-requisites or expectations of prior knowledge of the Islamic World or the Arabic language for this course.
Lecture | Open | Hybrid Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room D322 | Wed | 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
HIST_V 363-201 - Europe in the Early Middle Ages
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room B208 | Tue Thu | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 365-201 - Europe During the Renaissance
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D217 | Tue | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 369-101 - Europe, 1900-1950
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room B215 | Tue | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 376-A_201 - Modern Japanese History Since 1830 (A)
Lecture | Open | Multi-access Learning | 3 Credits
LASR-Floor 1-Room 105 | Mon | 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
HIST_V 378-101 - History of Early China
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
ANGU-Floor 3 & 4-Room 354 | Tue Thu | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 379-201 - History of Later Imperial China
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
ANGU-Floor 2-Room 235 | Tue Thu | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 380-A_201 - MODERN CHINA (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room B215 | Tue | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 381-101 - Imperialism and Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D217 | Tue | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 382-201 - Post-Colonial Southeast Asia
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D222 | Tue Thu | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 385-101 - India from Raj to Republic
Lecture | Open | Hybrid Learning | 3 Credits
Tue | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
HIST_V 386-A_201 - Korea Since 1860 (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room B313 | Mon Wed Fri | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HIST_V 388-201 - India in the Early Modern World: Kings, Courtesans, Saints
Lecture | Open | Online Learning | 3 Credits
Tue Thu | 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
HIST_V 391-101 - Human Rights in World History
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 1-Room A103 | Mon | 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
HIST_V 392-202 - Scientific Revolution: Circulation of Knwl in Early Mod Wld
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
SCRF-Floor 2-Room 207 | Mon Wed | 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 393-201 - Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D217 | Mon Wed Fri | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 394-101 - Darwin, Evolution, and Modern History
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
LIFE-Floor 2-Room 2302 | Wed | 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
HIST_V 396-201 - Environmental History of North America
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D219 | Mon Wed | 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
400-level Courses
HIST_V 400-101 - The Practice of Oral History
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room D317 | Thu | 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
HIST_V 402-A_201 - Problems in International Relations (A)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
Wed | 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 403-B_101 - History of International Relations (B)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
Wed | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Michael Lanthier
PEACE-MAKING AFTER MAJOR WARS: VERSAILLES, VIENNA, AND WESTPHALIA
In January 1919, two months after the armistice that ended the First World War, hundreds of statesmen and diplomats from thirty-two countries around the world gathered in Paris to draw up a series of treaties (including the much-maligned Treaty of Versailles, which quickly became synonymous with the Paris Peace Conference as a whole): their ultimate aim was to solve virtually all the world’s outstanding diplomatic problems and ensure peace for generations to come.
The Conference and its goals strike us today as quintessential examples of Western hubris. However, we can better appreciate the goal of the historical actors involved by studying the European tradition of peacemaking through treaties: the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) reveal much about the mental universe of those seeking to build an edifice of peace in 1919.
This long historical journey will then in turn shed light on the peacemaking processes of the twenty-first century, which have been shaped by this uniquely European understanding of polities (kingdoms, empires, nation-states) and the ways in which they deal with each other on the world stage.
Seminar | Waitlist | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D209 | Tue | 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Jessica Wang
The basic goods that sustain our everyday lives rest upon globally embedded systems of extraction, production, and distribution that most of us take for granted. These systems, however, have long histories conditioned by the uneven terrain of geopolitical power that has evolved from the early modern period to the present. This course will explore the global-scale movements of everyday commodities—for example, sugar, wheat, coffee, beef, bananas, cotton, and oil, the international structures of political and economic power behind them, and the environmental implications of the forms of consumption that define our material world today.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
AUDX-Floor 1-Room 142 | Tue | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Pheroze Unwalla
The Middle East in Graphic Novels: History, Politics, and the Tragic Comic
Once thought of as juvenile and immaterial to politics, society and culture, graphic novels are today frequently considered art forms, political satires and/or intellectual compositions fundamental to the health of our polities as well as our imaginings of past and present. This course will explore graphic novels with a focus on their representation of Middle Eastern history, politics and peoples. Reading such works as Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Craig Thompson’s Habibi, and others, we will discuss the evolution of the medium, the fraught history of visually representing the Middle East, as well as the challenges and opportunities graphic novels present for understanding the region. On this latter note, particular attention will be paid to the contentious use of graphic novels as works of journalism, oral history, and autobiography as well as to fundamental questions on the ethics of graphically representing tragic episodes from Middle Eastern pasts. Finally, given recent events associated with cartooning (i.e. the Charlie Hebdo massacre) we will also seek to grapple with such divisive issues as Islamophobia, Orientalism, free speech, and the uses and limits of satire.
Seminar | Waitlist | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room D306 | Thu | 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Bradley Miller
This seminar examines the history of international law in the modern world. Topics may include the emergence of international humanitarian law and the legal regulation of warfare, the place of international law in upholding and then abolishing slavery, the role of law in facilitating transnational movement of goods and people, and the development of international institutions and courts.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D209 | Wed | 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 406-101 - The Second World War
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
SWNG-Floor 2-Room 205 | Wed | 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
HIST_V 408-101 - U.S. Foreign Relations from Independence to World War II
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D218 | Tue | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
HIST_V 409-201 - U.S. Foreign Relations since 1945
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room B313 | Wed | 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
HIST_V 413-201 - Imagining the Nation: 19th- and 20th-Century Canada
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room B318 | Mon Wed | 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HIST_V 414-201 - Constitutions in Canadian History: Pre-Contact to Charter
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
MCLD-Floor 3-Room 3002 | Tue | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
HIST_V 418-201 - The 1960s in Global Perspective
Lecture | Open | Multi-access Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room D322 | Mon | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HIST_V 421-B_101 - Honours Tutorial (B)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1133 | Wed | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
HIST_V 421-D_201 - Honours Tutorial (D)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1133 | Tue | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
HIST_V 425-001 - War and Society
Lecture | Open | Hybrid Learning | 6 Credits
MATX-Floor 1-Room 1100 | Wed | 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
HIST_V 432-001 - International Relations in the Twentieth Century
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room A203 | Mon Wed | 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Leo Shin
History Lab
In this year-long required seminar for fourth-year Honours students, we will come together as a community to practice the craft of history. We will break down into concrete steps the process of historical research, and we will learn to tackle challenges ranging from identifying the underlying problems that motivate the research to understanding the potentials as well as limitations of the available sources to developing a feasible plan for completing a thesis. Along the way, students will explore some common resources, and they will learn to serve as each other’s most trenchant yet gentle sounding boards.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 6 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1112 | Thu | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
HIST_V 439-201 - Politics and Culture in Fin-de-Sicle Europe (1890-1914)
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room D218 | Tue Thu | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
HIST_V 441-101 - History of the Holocaust
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 2-Room B215 | Tue | 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
HIST_V 449-001 - Honours Essay
Independent Study | Open | In Person Learning | 12 Credits
Online
Hicham Safieddine
Confucian societies are often thought of as ones in which the brush is mightier than the sword. In fact the military has been a crucial factor in East Asia, and warfare has been the engine which has driven many of the most significant changes in East Asian history. This course will look at the evolution of East Asian military systems, and at the impact of recurrent warfare on East Asia societies.
Lecture | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
IBLC-Floor 1-Room 155 | Wed | 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Hicham Safieddine
This course critically examines the rich and diverse history of modern Arab and Islamic political and social thought from the 19th century until the present. Themes discussed include liberalism, nationalism, colonialism, socialism, Marxism, Islamic reform and government, feminism, and economic development.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
MATH-Floor 1-Room 105 | Tue | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Courtney Booker
In this course, we will survey the late antique and early medieval writers and their texts that shaped western European ideas about politics and power, agency and institutions, nature and the supernatural, man and the devil. We will see how both holy scripture and the works of the church authorities who laid down its “correct” interpretation were received and put into practice. Along the way, we will test the validity of the famous dictum by the notorious twentieth-century political philosopher Carl Schmitt that “all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room B303 | Thu | 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Carol Matheson
History 490T, Print Culture and International Relations: Europe, 1870-1907, is a research seminar designed to introduce students to the torrent of popular European print media focusing on key events in international relations between 1870 and 1907. Working with primary sources including regular and illustrated newspapers, political cartoons, images, postcards and song sheets, we will consider the role of mass media in politicizing popular culture in relation to significant events such as the unification of Germany, the first Hague Peace Conference, the Boxer Uprising, and more. While examining the context and significance of the various media, we will consider questions related to their production, commodification and consumption, as well as the interpretation of their messages and meanings. Throughout the seminar, our frames of inquiry will employ the historiographical lenses of nationalism, international relations, the public sphere, print and visual culture, and the history of emotions.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUCH-Floor 3-Room B319 | Tue | 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
HIST_V 490-Y_201 - Seminar for History Majors (Y)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
MATH-Floor 2-Room 225 | Thu | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
500/600-level Courses (Graduate Courses)
Bonnie Effros
This seminar is required of all doctoral students and is encouraged among our MA students. It is an introduction to the structural and professional aspects of the discipline of history, and is meant to make students more aware of some of the challenges and trends that currently exist in the field. Students will also have the opportunity to meet with alumni of our MA and PhD programs who are working in a variety of areas, including academia, museums, archives, libraries, government positions, and the private sector. Assignments include creating a timeline of goals for graduate study, creating a professional CV or resumé and cover letter for a position, composing a paper proposal for a conference, and writing a scaled-down grant application. Participation in course discussions is also a key piece of the seminar.
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 12-Room 1226 | Mon | 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HIST_V 548-D_101 - Historiography (D)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1112 | Wed | 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
HIST_V 549-001 - Master's Thesis
Thesis | Open | In Person Learning | 12 Credits
HIST_V 549-101 - Master's Thesis
Thesis | Open | In Person Learning | 12 Credits
HIST_V 549-201 - Master's Thesis
Thesis | Open | In Person Learning | 12 Credits
HIST_V 575-A_201 - Readings in International and Global History (A)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1112 | Mon | 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HIST_V 581-D_101 - Topics in Science, Technology, and Society (D)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1133 | Mon | 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
HIST_V 585-A_101 - Topics in Cultural History (A)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits |
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1112 | Tue | 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
HIST_V 586-A_101 - Topics in Intellectual History (A)
Seminar | Open | Hybrid Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1133 | Wed | 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
HIST_V 589-101 - Readings in Environmental History
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
Thu | 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
HIST_V 595-B_201 - Public History (B)
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 11-Room 1112 | Tue | 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
HIST_V 599-101 - M.A. Research Seminar
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 12-Room 1226 | Wed | 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
HIST_V 649-001 - Doctoral Dissertation
Thesis | Open | In Person Learning | 0 Credits
HIST_V 649-101 - Doctoral Dissertation
Thesis | Open | In Person Learning | 0 Credits
HIST_V 649-201 - Doctoral Dissertation
Thesis | Open | In Person Learning | 0 Credits
HIST_V 699-201 - Ph.D. Research Seminar
Seminar | Open | In Person Learning | 3 Credits
BUTO-Floor 12-Room 1226 | Wed | 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.